January 04, 2014

Food For Thought: The Forty Rules of Love

" Whatever you speak, good or evil, will somehow come back to you." Page211

This book is truly captivating and sparked my interest to read more about the renowned poet Jalal Al-Din AlRoumi .

The story starts with Ella, a mother and house wife who edits a manuscripts that tells the story of Rumi and his companion Shams of Tabriz her steady and semi boring life takes an un-expected turn as she starts to yearn for love that she never lived after 20 years of marriage.

That's simply a jumpstart of an affair with the manuscript writer Aziz, a free spirited photographer with a broken heart . Whom after frequent mail exchanges she find herself unable to stop thinking about him . The story plot unravels to sad but beyond satisfactory end ..